FL - Sarah Lunde, 13, murdered, Ruskin, 9 April 2005

[TisHerself]

I hope I am so wrong but sounds like Onstott had Sarah picked out and was just waiting for right time. I really pray I am wrong and she has ran away.

 

[Shadow205]

I hate to be all gloom & doom people but I've been in it to long. I'm afraid that you might as well go ahead and prepare yourself for a bad ending in this one. I think they already have the perp, now they just have to find the victim. I pray that I am wrong but just being realistic. Sounds to me like Mom's boyfriend realized that he left behind evidence to link him to the crime(the beer bottle) and went back and got it.

 

[lady-eowyn]

I hate to be all gloom & doom people but I've been in it to long. I'm afraid that you might as well go ahead and prepare yourself for a bad ending in this one. I think they already have the perp, now they just have to find the victim. I pray that I am wrong but just being realistic. Sounds to me like Mom's boyfriend realized that he left behind evidence to link him to the crime(the beer bottle) and went back and got it.

I have to say I agree with you Shadow...I called about volunteering for the search and was told that it was too late to check in today. I won't be able to do it at all tomorrow as I'm headed out of town. But my gut feeling tells me that it's going to yield nothing good.

 

[KatherineQ]

I agree, it doesn't look good for dear Sarah. She sounds like a really sweet girl.

It's kind of baffling that the brother didn't put this together before, and tell the mother about this. Or maybe he did, who knows.

For her to be gone after midnight, and it be obvious that when she was alone in the house AFTER MIDNIGHT, this loser sexual offender comes by and drinks half a beer.

It sounds like this home is such utter chaos that a man coming over at 5 a.m. and retrieving a beer bottle he left there when NO ONE KNEW HE WAS THERE, and now the sister's mysteriously gone, that's such a huge thing. I mean really, for some guy to come by at 5 a.m, terribly unusual and memorable in most homes. Baffling.


edited to add: I wonder if the brother was drinking? I know he's underage and there's been no mention that he was drinking, but it's hard to imagine how else he could not recognize this as being a big problem.

 

[richandfamous]

I hate to be all gloom & doom people but I've been in it to long. I'm afraid that you might as well go ahead and prepare yourself for a bad ending in this one. I think they already have the perp, now they just have to find the victim. I pray that I am wrong but just being realistic. Sounds to me like Mom's boyfriend realized that he left behind evidence to link him to the crime(the beer bottle) and went back and got it.

Shadow, if I may ask, you said you have been in it to long...what do you do?
And, yes, the predator came back within about 3 hours to get the beer bottle evidence. You know what they say........most victims are dead within 3 hours, right? OMG, what in the hell are these mother's thinking??? Don't they know that they are subjecting their children to anyone they bring home as a friend or boyfriend? Are they so hard up for love that they would risk their own children? jmo

 

[mysteriew]

Found Onstott on the database. On the search page click Advanced Options, put a check on county incarcerated county and incarcerated federal. Go back to the search page and leave everything blank, but choose the Hillsborough county. There are 1362 registered offenders in Hillsborough county. (137 pages)

http://www3.fdle.state.fl.us/sexual...uffer=37043,true&SPage=584757123&GeoOptions=0

 

[CinnamonGirl]

I agree,this will have a sad ending.Mother's really need to smarten up when it comes to their kids.I imagine this will be another Jetseta type case.

 

[lady-eowyn]

Found Onstott on the database. On the search page click Advanced Options, put a check on county incarcerated county and incarcerated federal. Go back to the search page and leave everything blank, but choose the Hillsborough county. There are 1362 registered offenders in Hillsborough county. (137 pages)

http://www3.fdle.state.fl.us/sexual_predators/Result.asp?Cmd=SelectOne&PageNumber=91&PageSource=0&PageNavIdx=9&PageBuffer=37043,true&SPage=584757123&GeoOptions=0

That's comforting huh?

Funny...I did that earlier and he did not show up...may have just taken them a bit to change his status...dunno..I do know he wasn't on there before

 

[CinnamonGirl]

Onstott is pretty creepy looking.

 

[lady-eowyn]

Onstott is pretty creepy looking.

and from what the brother said he could be violent too....hopefully Sheriff Gee will get to the bottom of this.

 

[mysteriew]

and from what the brother said he could be violent too....hopefully Sheriff Gee will get to the bottom of this.

Yeah, sounds like he is a violent :loser:
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Records show Onstott was convicted in 1995 of sexual battery with physical force, spent 5 1/2 years in state prison and then served two years of probation.

Gee said Onstott also was arrested in March for failing to notify authorities of his current address. He was released on bail, and the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office is investigating the case as a possible probation violation, Gee said

After being questioned by authorities Tuesday, Onstott went to a friend's house in Apollo Beach saying he needed a place to shower and sleep, authorities said. The men argued, and Onstott threatened the other man with a screwdriver, according to an arrest affidavit.

Onstott was being held without bail at the Orient Road Jail. He also is being held on a charge of failure of sexual predator to register and a Michigan warrant accusing him of driving under the influence.

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB3UMBGI7E.html

 

[Sheromom]

I KNOW I will get some dissing for this opinion but I TRULY believe that all sexual predators should have their genitals AND their hands removed. We would know who to avoid out there. I cannot imagine a mother knowingly having a relationship with someone like that. I so wonder about the CPS offices in EVERY state. My son had a child with a woman whose first child was taken away from her at 2 months old with several ribs broken in various stages of healing. She got that child back about the same time she had my grandson. I tried very hard to like her; hoping it was someone else who had hurt the first child but I could never get beyond wondering how any child could be in that amount of pain (even a cracked rib HURTS!) and its mother not think anything was wrong. Well, sure enough, for nearly seven years now I have LIVED at CPS telling them how she locks the children outside at night as a typical punishment, refuses them water and leaves them in a locked car in the summer (windows rolled up) and all sorts of things normal people would never consider doing to their children. We have even had a police officer take our grandson from his home because of handprint bruises on his back. CPS let us have him three days (our son still lives with us- they never married) and then she got him back. Children are left in the most dangerous circumstances in our nation in the name of FREEDOM! The poor little girl here sounds like she was really trying to lead a good life in spite of her home life.

 

[Timex]

Missing:Sarah Lunde Florida 12 yrs old

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http://www.stpetetimes.com/2005/04/...rch_for_m.shtml

Another child with a mother that had a boyfriend that's a sexual offender,I hope this child doesn't end up like Jetseta Gage.

 

[lady-eowyn]

Roy Brown, Amanda Brown's father has also joined the search, along with Mark Lunsford

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBBX3Z8J7E.html

RUSKIN - Volunteers searching for 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde today were joined by two familiar faces: Mark Lunsford, the father of a 9-year-old girl who was abducted and killed in Homosassa in February, and Roy Brown, father of a 7-year-old Seffner girl who disappeared in 1998 and has never been found. ``It hurts to be here, but it has to be done,'' said Lunsford, father of Jessica Lunsford. ``The family and this little girl need all the help they can get.''

 

[Nchadwickaz]

Found this article pretty interesting..... so was there no one at the residence at the time of her disappearence?

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=13280

 

[Nchadwickaz]

So let me get this right????

Even when the brother returned and the front door opened, sister gone and a half full beer on the counter -- then the mother's exboyfriend (sex offender) shows up unannounced, wakes up brother and grabs the beer and leaves..... it was not apparent to anyone that this odd or something wrong????

This is normal for the family?

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=13280

 

[Shadow205]

Richandfamous,

I don't mind you asking at all. I am a retired Police Officer, just retired last year from a department in south Florida.

 

[lady-eowyn]

So let me get this right????

Even when the brother returned and the front door opened, sister gone and a half full beer on the counter -- then the mother's exboyfriend (sex offender) shows up unannounced, wakes up brother and grabs the beer and leaves..... it was not apparent to anyone that this odd or something wrong????

This is normal for the family?

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=13280

Sadly Nchadwickaz this is normal for some families..not every family lives like middle America suburbia. It obviously was not so out of the ordinary that the brother felt compelled to call the police

 

[concernedperson]

Nancy Grace is profiling this case and it doesn't look good. Her mother seems to be absentee. The sex offender that was involved with her mother is under suspicion and in the interim Sarah is missing. This just doesn't look good. My heart is breaking for yet another child who we can presume to be dead. It freaking stinks and how in the hell can we continue to let this happen? I am totally out of sorts and would like any direction as to how this can be prevented.

 

[lady-eowyn]

Ex-girlfriend says Onstott is bad news

Ex Girlfriend:
“He is a sick individual.”

That’s how David Onstott’s ex girlfriend describes the man who at this point appears to be the best lead in the Sara Lunde disappearance. The ex girlfriend who asked us not to show her face was granted a domestic violence injunction to keep Onstott away

Ex Girlfriend:
“The injunction I got was out of pure fear, because this man is sick.”

Court records say Onstott owns knives, has alcohol, drug and history of mental health problems.

:furious: